HOSPITAL REPORT
The premier resource for hospital professionals from Relias Media, the trusted source for healthcare information and continuing education.
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Medicare 2016 Penalties See More Hospitals Dinged than in 2015
The 2016 Medicare reimbursement penalty data has many hospitals grumbling.
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Give Me Some Space … To Help Teens with Mental Health Challenges
Gundersen Health System has a collaboration that addresses teens' mental health issues before they reach suicidal behavior.
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Ex-War Buddies Reunited through Kidney Donation
When Bill Warner needed a kidney transplant, his Vietnam War comrade was there for payback.Read More -
Study Finds that Low-income Cancer Patients May Find Clinical Trials Cost-prohibitive
A recent study in JAMA Oncology determined that low-income cancer patients face barriers to clinical trials that higher-income patients may find more marginal.
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Shhhhh! Patients Are Trying to Sleep – Is your Staff Keeping Them Awake?
Want to have happier and healthier patients, plus healthier staff? Cut down on the noise.Read More -
Physician-Hospital Mergers Mean Higher Outpatient Costs
A new study unearths a link between physician-hospital integration and increase in cost of outpatient services.
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Battle for Better Literacy Can Become a War on Words
I used to be at war with my publications. We used to shrink the size of the text in order to get everything in. I would raise a battle cry: “Our readers can’t read text that small!” How did I know? Because I’m one of those (over-50) readers. There’s a hospital that recognizes the difficulty that us older ones have reading small type.Read More -
Report: ACOs Not Living Up to Cost-saving Potential
Four years after the program started, data show that Medicare accountable care organizations still are not living up to the cost-saving promise.
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Hospital Regulations Are No Match for True Love
They had been separated only one other time: when he served in the Korean War. This time, it wasn’t a war that separated them, but hospital regulations.Read More -
States and feds are some of the heavy hitters in fighting addiction to opioids
Opioid addiction is hitting hospitals and healthcare providers across the country, as drug-seekers increasingly crowd EDs and physician offices looking for that next hit.Read More